I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share
A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him. — J. I. Packer Copy Share
